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MaceSwinger

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  1. Slightly different as we're family, but we go out with three couples: me and my wife, sister and bro in law, and my parents. That's all fine...it's my niece and nephew that get on my pecs after a while
  2. I've said on here before, but when I'm aboard with our large family group my general rule is know my limit, and then stop a few pints before I get there. If it's just me and my wife then I tend to drink even less. There is absolutely nothing wrong with having a few when on the helm in my opinion, provided you can still act responsibly.
  3. Isn't that the truth! I lived in Lulworth for a while and people very often said how lovely that must be...not during the winter it's not!
  4. This story has been posted on another FB group and it's generating quite a bit of controversy. I'm firmly of the opinion that whilst it's not the absolute worst idea, and as much commercial sense Wroxham makes, there must be a better place for these. There are plenty of less crowded stretches of river. I can see it now on a handover day, with Queen of The Broads coming out of the basin. It's a recipe for carnage in my eyes.
  5. One of the comments just made me howl, about the skipper missing low tide and is now up there waiting for high tide.
  6. I spent 3 years in Catterick (and I'm off back there for a fortnight on course later today!) and I was always gobsmacked at the cost of property in Richmond. Aside from being quite pretty there's not nearly enough there to warrant the cost in my opinion. As you Andrew's original point, I suppose Norfolk is far (and different) enough from Essex for it to feel a real change but still close enough for family etc. That would be my logic at least.
  7. The New Inn, Horning, are advertising on their social media that they're overhauling their (rather large) garden ready for 12th of April.
  8. After 18 years I'm still finding stuff I was told was untrue I was once told not to apply for a recruiting job by the chap who was interviewing candidates. "No chance Clarky...you're far too bloody honest!"
  9. I've never been in there, although a mate of mine who lives in what were previously the married quarters for RAF Coltishall says it's lovely. I think it's something to do with the name; I've never met a recruiting sergeant I can trust...certainly not the one who recruited me
  10. We have a great many in my "organisation", and we prefer slightly more colourful terms for them than cockwomble! Although sometimes we use that term with the "womble" omitted.
  11. If I owned a boat I'd have my car loaded and running at 2359HRS 11 April!
  12. Pubs have always been an added bonus rather than a reason to travel for me, and aside from what has become a traditional stop over at the New Inn (mostly because it's a convenient mooring for Horning) I usually make a point to avoid pubs whilst away. I'd much rather spend a night on the mud weight at South Walsham than moored outside a noisy pub. I can spend time around drunken cretins at home (especially as I live in a uni town ).
  13. What a handy tool, and definitely great for wasting my evenings when I'm stuck back on camp from next week. Would have been useful this morning when I was tracing the old route for Yarmouth Beach station and where the old third bridge over the Bure was!
  14. I'm sure I've seen one advertising on a Broads Facebook group for delivery to Ranworth over the last few days, although I may be mistaken. I hope not, they were great. Fantastic meal delivered right to my transom door
  15. Just had a look on Google Maps. If it's the Le Boat base in Douelle it really is perilously close to a weir. I know the most important thing is nobody hurt, which thankfully is the case, but that must be soul destroying, however big your yard, to see part of you livelihood literally washed away. If they've made it as far as Fumel that really is a hell of a way.
  16. One yard immediately springs to mind.
  17. I'm serving now, but working from home. Which as a drill instructor, range officer and army bandsman is quite difficult. My wife on the other hand works for Amazon in the fulfilment centre at East Midlands Aiport, so she's working 60 hour weeks on night shifts. The result being a bit of role reversal for us from "traditional" jobs. I'm doing all the cooking and cleaning around my remote training, and she's doing her best to trash the place when she's in and awake! That's how our kitchen refurb started. We'd done the lounge and dining room (well, I had, with her "supervision") and then she comes out with "oh, I'm not sure the kitchen works now all the colours are wrong with the dining room"
  18. "So they do. You know where the brushes are." I do most things round the house, but glossing is a "pink job" here. Mostly because it sends me into a slightly psychotic rage.
  19. My wife didn't like the tiling in our kitchen. Long story short, the new units come on Wednesday and I'm refitting the entire kitchen next week. Just how I wanted to spend a weeks leave
  20. Maybe I've not been paying attention, but even "that" yellow marker by Breydon Bridge doesn't have any signage warning about cutting the corner. There was a boat aground there as I passed through last August. Skippers' Manuas on hire cruisers all have a very thorough section on crossing Breydon, including staying in the marked channel, and of course the Heron map and Collins guide both make specific mention of the channel markers (with the Collins guide even stating that you should cross at low water). I wouldn't like to guess at how many people actually read the Skippers' Manual though...
  21. Bloody hirers, ignoring the posts... oh...
  22. My feelings on your rather blinkered view of hirers aside, I couldn't agree more with your final point. It just seems like another BA vanity project to me. "Look how much we care!" is a poor substitute for boots on the ground as it were. Incidentally, the most discourteous and sometimes dangerous behaviour I saw last year was from owners. And it wasn't a hire boat I had to talk through stern-on mooring at Gayes either.
  23. What irks me is it seems the tragic incidents last year weren't necessarily as a result of poor training or HO/TO with the yards. They were a result of people not doing what they will have been told to do. Even at Barnes we still managed a fairly thorough handover/takeover with them, especially where safety was concerned. I really do feel for the families who were affected last year, but surely "don't shove your mate into the river" isn't something that should need to be said? The whole "them and us" argument from private owners will never cease to irritate me. The whole thing smacks of elitism and that, to me, is not what Broads boating should be about. Or maybe I imagined that private gin palace side swiping us on a mooring last year? The idea of a bit of pre-training is interesting. The amount of time people waste on Facebook quizzes, perhaps something along those lines would work?
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